It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFNinety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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